On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 10:14:06PM +0300, Aleksei Sviridkin wrote: > Dropping 1/2. > > The board keeping me from the select is downstream: an MT7981 router > whose U-Boot support lives in OpenWrt as a defconfig and a device > tree, with no board directory here. I will carry a MediaTek-local > pair of symbols there instead, one selecting the header and one > holding the offset base, and leave the generic ones alone. > > Does 2/2 still stand on its own? It gives mach-mediatek the same > default TEXT_BASE for LNX_KRNL_IMG_TEXT_OFFSET_BASE that mach-mmp, > mach-rockchip and mach-apple carry, so a MediaTek board that selects > the header links without supplying its own. If you would rather every > board spell out the value, I will drop that one too.
It's unclear to me, so it might be unclear to others, what the use case you're trying to solve here. These symbols are used for (typically) when we have some prior stage loader that assumes it's booting the linux kernel and we need to fake this enough to get loaded ourselves, instead. -- Tom
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